Charles Nodier

Charles Nodier was born in Besançon on 29 April 1780. The author of an ode violently hostile to Bonaparte, he was imprisoned in 1803. At the end of the Empire, he directed in Laybach, in the Illyrian Provinces, a newspaper published in several languages. Having become librarian of the Arsenal, in Paris, he held a salon there where the writers of the Romantic generation gathered. Elected to the Académie française in 1833, he died at the Arsenal on 27 January 1844.

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• NovelThe Crumb FairyLa Fée aux miettesCharles Nodier · 1832LiteraturePublic domain